SCHEDULE 1Activities, installations and mobile plant

PART 1Interpretation and application: general

Application of Part B activities: releases into the air6

1

Subject to sub-paragraph (2), an activity is not to be taken to be a Part B activity within Part 2 of this Schedule if it cannot result in the release into the air of a substance listed in sub-paragraph (3) or there is no likelihood that it will result in the release into the air of any such substance except in a quantity which is so trivial that it is incapable of causing pollution or its capacity to cause pollution is insignificant.

2

Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to an activity which may give rise to an offensive smell noticeable outside the site where the activity is carried on.

3

References to, or to the release into the air of, a substance listed in this paragraph are to any of the following substances—

a

oxides of sulphur and other sulphur compounds;

b

oxides of nitrogen and other nitrogen compounds;

c

oxides of carbon;

d

organic compounds and partial oxidation products;

e

metals, metalloids and their compounds;

f

asbestos (suspended particulate matter and fibres), glass fibres and mineral fibres;

g

halogens and their compounds;

h

phosphorus and its compounds;

i

particulate matter.